Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Why are these stylish women posing with scientific instruments? Instrument makers in the 1960s used “lovely ladies” to sell their wares, an advertising ploy that’s still around today.
Join Distillations podcast host Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
Comic-book characters have been wrestling with the consequences of the atomic age for nearly as long as we three-dimensional characters.
It’s one thing to make a scientific discovery, but making it count is another thing entirely.
The transfermium elements—the fleeting, lab-made substances that populate the end of the periodic table—have a history built on pride and acrimony.
Our book club reads Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth by Keith Veronese.
